{"id":137,"date":"2007-12-01T03:13:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T03:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/2007\/12\/01\/im_wa_bike_course_bike_drop_off_need_to_change_my_last_name\/"},"modified":"2007-12-01T03:13:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T03:13:22","slug":"im_wa_bike_course_bike_drop_off_need_to_change_my_last_name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/archives\/im_wa_bike_course_bike_drop_off_need_to_change_my_last_name.html","title":{"rendered":"IM WA: Bike Course, Bike Drop Off, Need to Change My Last Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I took a quick ride out onto the bike course.  It is incredibly flat.  According to my buddy Keish, the max elevation change is 50 ft!  Foothill Expressway is a tougher ride than this course, and it ain&#8217;t tough at all! Also, apparently out here at sunrise and sunset, kangaroos come out and hang out by the roadside foraging for food.\n<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/1.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/2.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>After getting back to the room, we got all our T1 and T2 equipment together into our bags and set out to check in our bikes and that equipment.\n<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/3.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/5.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/6.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Parking our bikes in transition was nice.  They had a labeled spot for me that had my name on it!  This race has almost 1000 people in it; it&#8217;s probably the smallest race I&#8217;ve been to (most of the other Ironmans are well over 2000 these days).  It&#8217;s funny to see only this many bikes in transition.  Very unusual for me.\n<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/7.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/8.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/9.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/10.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Yet more waiting in line to check in our T1 and T2 bags.  I think I must change my last name because every time I reach a line, it&#8217;s the slowest moving line that has the most people in it!  What a drag!\n<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/11.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/14.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Here is Greg our rep from Endurance Sports Travel.  He&#8217;s a pro-triathlete from Brooklyn who just made Team USA, and hopefully will be an Olympic contender someday.  He&#8217;s also our mechanic and chauffeur for our race.\n<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/12.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=210 height=158 src=\"\/images\/imwa5\/13.jpg\" border=0><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I took a quick ride out onto the bike course. It is incredibly flat. According to my buddy Keish, the max elevation change is 50 ft! 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Also, apparently out here at sunrise and sunset, kangaroos come out and hang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironman-wa-12-2-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}